O'Donohue W T, Elliott A N, Nickerson M, Valentine S
Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115.
Violence Vict. 1992 Summer;7(2):147-55.
We investigated whether sex role stereotyping, adversarial sexual beliefs, acceptance of interpersonal violence, sex of the subject, characteristics of the child (age, sex), and characteristics of the alleged perpetrator (stranger, father) affect judgments of the credibility of children's reports that they have been sexually abused. Two hundred and fifty-five college students in a 3 x 2 x 2 factorial arrangement were given the Burt (1980) scales and asked to read a short vignette in which a child alleged that he/she was sexually abused and the accused male denied the abuse. Although the vast majority of subjects indicated that they believed the child was telling the truth, females rated the child's credibility significantly higher than males F(1, 253) = 6.29, p = .01226. No other significant relationships were found. The results imply that the vast majority of individuals in a college sample tended to believe children's sexual abuse allegations and that this credibility assessment is not influenced by characteristics of the child or perpetrator examined in this study. Implications of the truncated range of the dependent variable and of the Burt scales are discussed.
我们调查了性别角色刻板印象、敌对性性观念、对人际暴力的接受程度、受测者的性别、儿童的特征（年龄、性别）以及被指控的犯罪者的特征（陌生人、父亲）是否会影响对儿童关于遭受性虐待报告的可信度判断。255名大学生按照3×2×2析因设计接受了伯特（1980年）量表测试，并被要求阅读一篇短文，短文中一名儿童声称自己遭受了性虐待，而被指控的男性否认了这一指控。尽管绝大多数受测者表示他们相信儿童说的是真话，但女性对儿童可信度的评分显著高于男性，F(1, 253) = 6.29，p = 0.01226。未发现其他显著关系。结果表明，大学样本中的绝大多数人倾向于相信儿童的性虐待指控，并且这种可信度评估不受本研究中所考察的儿童或犯罪者特征的影响。文中讨论了因变量范围受限以及伯特量表的影响。
